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Der letzte Absatz sollte so manch Enduser zum Nachdenken anregen: Viele #OpenSource Projekte werden von Freiwilligen in deren Freizeit gestämmt. Da hat es einfach keinen Platz irgendwelche Forderungen zu stellen.

#AppleM4: Veränderungen machen #AsahiLinux-Umsetzung schwer | Mac & i heise.de/news/Asahi-Linux-Prob #Linux :tux:

heise online · Apple M4: Veränderungen machen Asahi-Linux-Umsetzung schwerBy Ben Schwan

Looks like M4 support for #asahilinux is going be rather painful. We’re still focusing on upstreaming M1/M2 support but other people have been trying to bring up m1n1 on M4 and it looks like a few things changed:

When configuring a macho boot object we now get dropped into an environment where Apple’s SPTM is running in GL2 and we are supposed to talk to it from EL2 with MMU already enabled to setup pagetables. This neither works for Linux nor for running XNU under our hypervisor to reverse engineer the new hardware.

When configuring a raw boot object we’re dropped into EL2 with GL2 and most (all?) Apple specific extensions disabled. This is totally fine for Linux but we can’t run XNU under our hypervisor that we use to reverse engineer the hardware in this state. This also seems to be broken for >=15.2 right now because it probably isn’t very well tested 😕

It's sad to see what's happening on @AsahiLinux , but the project has never made sense to me, apart from the developers having fun of doing it.

#Apple doesn't deserve that effort, it's too close of a company.

My opinion is the best the community does is not support Apple at all, and if someone wants to use Linux, let that person support a company that supports Linux somehow.

I have an #AppleSilicon #M1 and definitely my next hardware will not be Apple's anymore, I'm leaving the ecosystem to support other initiatives.

@mntmn is on my radar... I'm open to suggestions and opinions!

Thanks!